Fados / Duvideo ; Fado Filmes ; Zebra Producciones ; produced by Ivan Dias, LuiÌs Galvão Teles, and Antonio Saura ; directed by Carlos Saura.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Dias, Ivan, producer.

Galvão, Luís, producer.

Saura Medrano, Antonio, producer.

Saura, Carlos, 1932-2023, director.

Alexander Street Press.

Duvideo (Firm), production company.

Fado Filmes, production company.

Zebra Producciones, production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fados.

Flamenco music.

Folk music--Portugal.

Folk music.

Portugal.

Folk songs, Portuguese.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Zeitgeist, 2009.

Language Note:

In Portuguese or Spanish with optional English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal's most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave of modern faudistas, he ingeniously deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song, ranging from a campfire ringed by sinuous dancers to a balletic catfight between two jealous women to a thrilling desgarrada (musical duel) in a fado cafe. The result is a ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 23, 2016).

OCLC:

950614118

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.